Stephen Corry is the founder and director of Survival International, an organization that seeks to protect tribal people’s rights. While a worthy goal, Corry, unfortunately, seeks to blame conservation for […]
Kathie Lynch. Yellowstone Wolf Update: August 2015
Yellowstone Wolf Update- © By Kathie Lynch. Late summer wolf watching in Yellowstone’s Northern Range was all about the Lamar Canyon pack. Except for some distant sightings of the Prospect Peak […]
California gets its first wolf pack
The emergence of the Shasta Pack shows OR-7s year of visits was no fluke- Wolf supporters in California and elsewhere are rejoicing with the discovery of the state’s first wolf […]
Grazing Leads to Blazing
Livestock grazing has fanned summer’s fires in Idaho and the West- Livestock grazing in southwestern Idaho and across the West has contributed significantly to intensity, severity, and enormity of fires […]
Resilient Federal Forest Act will diminish resilience of forests
Oregon Congressman’s Greg Walden’s (other western legislators also are sponsors) support of the so-called Resilient Federal Forests Act is based on faulty assumptions. The Resilient Federal Forests Act will actually […]
New Idaho Wilderness Areas also offer a new way to retire grazing permits
As much as 700,000 acres in and adjacent to the new designated wildernesses could possibly be retired from livestock grazing- Many people are celebrating the establishment of the three new wilderness […]
Fire Fighting wastes money
The article below has many important points from the Antiplanner that I believe are quite accurate. The FS spends almost a thousand dollars per acre trying to control fires. This […]
Griz kills Yellowstone hiker and eats part of him
Experienced hiker dead in backcountry near Elephant Back Trail. Found partly buried and partly eaten- Although Yellowstone bison this year have been throwing tourists around and stomping on them (5 […]